You tell them Senator Loopy

Canberra: Senator Steve Fielding has asked for a one-on-one meeting with Al Gore; to share his concerns with anthropogenic climate change theory.

Good luck Senator Loopy.

Climate change believers are exactly that, believers. Being a believer yourself, you should know that people who have an irrational belief in myths are not swayed by reason, or even proof.

In fact climate change believers have a lot in common with those who believe in religion. They label their opponents with words loaded to make their opponents look irrelevant (skeptic, heretic). They claim that if they are not followed that pain and suffering will follow (global warming, hell). Their theories are practically impossible to prove true until far too late (global warming cannot be proven until after it happens, heaven cannot be proven to exist by the living). The have a doctrine (An Inconvenient Truth, The Bible), they have command structure that interprets the doctrine for the followers (IPCC, The Pope). They demand money for the cause.

In fact, I’m sure the Climate Change satisfies the 7 requirements of a religion.

Stay tuned.

What is it about change that scares environmentalists?

The environment has been changing. Not just in the past 20, or 50 years. 10 000 years ago, Planet Earth was in a deep ice age. 100 000 years ago it was warm. Grass didn’t exist 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs did. 4 billion years ago Earth didn’t even exist – it has just a cloud of particles swirling around a small protostar.

So what is so scary about climate change now? We feel guilty that it was us? Vast colonies of organisms have been changing the environment since the beginning of life. Why is it such a big deal that it *may* be us.

So we’ll probably lose a few tropical islands. And a few polar bears. In both cases there will be few extinctions. Malaria will spread a little further.

What about the positives? Opening the northwest passage would be a boon for international trade. Agriculture would surely boom with new arable areas and greater yields. That can pay for mosquito nets, while increasing the supply of food in Africa.

The fact is that the climate is not a static, unchanging portrait. It is a dynamic, everchanging, complex chemical reaction that we, and indeed everyone is a part of.

Stop being indignant about it – think of the positives and embrace the new world that change can bring.

G8 forge historic climate deal

Italy: G8 leaders have taken a bold, and provocative step in the fight against climate change.

Prime Minister Berlusconi delivered the news to the press gallery: ‘We have an in-principle consensus to reach an agreement to develop a draft memorandum of understanding to put forward a motion regarding our non-binding recommendation of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 to the Copenhagen summit.’

Prime Minister Rudd was elated ‘I think this is a big step forward for us. And, I’ll be dead by crunch time, so it doesn’t really bother me.’

The opposition were critical of the deal. ‘This deal doesn’t go not too far enough. Why can’t Rudd get a 120% reduction. This shows the incompetence of this government.’ preached Turnbull.

‘And 2050 is too soon’ he continued ‘business cannot absorb the shock of such a sudden introduction. We propose 3050 as appropriate timing.’

When asked if that was too late, Turnbull was proud that he ‘is not afraid to make the big decisions.’

Renewables will not solve the problem if they are not viable

Renewable energy needs to be able to compete with traditional energy to solve climate change properly. No subsidies, no figure fudging.

Our children will not be well served by inventing, and subsequently rely on an industry that requires subsidies to survive.

Don’t forget – economics might be about this foreign concept called money, but money is just an IOU for someone’s time or possessions. If renewable energy can’t get on it’s feet, then our productivity, and hence our quality of life will suffer.

Is our quality of life what we are trying to improve by fixing climate change?

Renewable energy needs to commercialise itself. Not in ‘green movement’, or a ‘university ‘ style of commercialisation, but a real, blue chip business level of implementation.

Get on it guys, because if climate change is as pressing as you say it is, you have heaps of work in not much time.

Treasurer Swan announces ‘Greenwash’ Stimulus Package

Global Financial Crisis. Global Warming. Both seem to have have come to a precipice at the same time. Both have the word ‘Global’ in them. Both are related to western society living without regard for sustainability. Luckily for the land o’ Oz, Wayne Swan has cottoned onto this too. The Treasurer spoke to the press club today.

‘The green stimulus package I have announced today is a win for the environment, a win for the economy and a win for Australia. Our new spending package will create new green jobs, and feeds into our new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’.

The green stimulus package involves grants of millions of dollars to set up wind farms, solar farms, and grants to automotive manufacturers to design and manufacture hybrid vehicles in Australia.

‘This is a significant step towards reducing the effects of Climate Change’ Greens leader Senator Bob Brown was quoted as saying this morning on ABC radio, ‘Technologies like solar, and wind power have always struggled to be economic enough to compete in the marketplace, a problem that has also dogged hybrid cars. Now with these subsidies from the taxpayer, the public will be blissfully unaware of how much renewable energy really costs. This government should be applauded today for making the tough decision to ignore the reality of climate change, and to instead place pressure on our designated scapegoats: Petrol driven cars and conventional energy companies’

When asked if the zero-emission and economically viable energy souce of nuclear would also be able to access the grants, he turned red and said: ‘Do you want to live next to Chernobyl? I certainly don’t.’ When informed that Chernobyl is town in Ukraine, we received no reply.

By channelling large amounts of money into projects that seem appealing to the masses, the government hopes that thousands of new unsustainable and unproductive jobs will stimulate the economy and boost GDP, and therefore tax revenues.

Penny Wong was also spruiking the plan on talkback radio: ‘Climate change is caused by big, bad corporations. Oil companies, coal companies and car companies are all conspiring to acheive one thing- the destruction of the planet. In no way are the public responsible for global warming by either demanding a better quality of life, or breeding like rabbits until the planet’s resources and atmosphere cannot keep up. The more pressure we place on these scapegoats, sorry, I mean evil corporations, the better. It’s not like they make their money proving you, the public with goods and services that you want.’

Union leaders also appear to back the proposal. Sharon Burrow, president of the ACTU said this morning that she ‘is very excited at the government’s support for Australian jobs. Unions stand up for the jobs of hardworking Australians, no matter how unsustainable or unproductibe those jobs really are.’

Call it a masterstroke, call it ‘making tough decisions’, but one thing is for sure: By channeling money down the path of least productivity, things can only get better, right? Seems to work for Zimbabwe….